Secret Technique

Weiheng who had returned to Li Yin palace immediately went to see Chunyin. His guess was correct if the master had returned first. Even though he looks concerned, Weiheng knows that his master also likes to do things as he pleases, even though he doesn't have a problem with his master's attitude like that, but still Weiheng always has to suppress his emotions. Several times he always got into trouble because of his master who liked to act arbitrarily without discussing or telling the things he wanted to do. Even so, he couldn't do anything but accept it.

"Li Xi! Wait until my brother takes the throne back, and I will make you suffer!" Weiheng growled in his heart as soon as he returned to his room.

"What's with your face?" asked Wenhua who was approaching Weiheng.

"Big brother, you know? I might have almost died at the hands of Emperor Feng because of that Damn Li Xi!" Weiheng complained in a low voice because he was in the palace environment.

"How long do we have to pretend to continue serving him? When are you going to reclaim the throne?!-"

"Hua-er! Shut your mouth!" Wenhua immediately cut off Weiheng's conversation and spoke in a snarling tone.

Weiheng was shocked and immediately lowered his head when he heard Wenhua's shout. "I-I'm sorry, Hua-er was wrong" Weiheng whispered as he tugged at Wenhua's sleeve, "Brother, don't be angry... Hua-er only has you. I'm sorry" Weiheng said while holding back tears. He was always afraid when he heard Wenhua's screams. He was afraid that Wenhua would be angry with him and leave him.

Seeing his young brother who was even holding back his tears, Wenhua immediately took a breath and hugged Weiheng who he called Hua-er.

Wenhua whispered.

"I'm sorry for being impatient. You must also be much more tired, Big Brother ... Hua-er will always help you" Weiheng said not wanting to make Wenhua any more worried. He realized that his brother had done a lot for him. He also realized that the burden his brother carried was much greater, therefore Weiheng was always cheerful and kept many problems to himself because he didn't want to add to his brother's burden, even though he was also often free to express his emotions like before.

Wenhua took a deep breath then let it out slowly.

"What else did Your Majesty Li Xi do to you that you almost died at the hands of Emperor Feng? Where have you two gone after all? I didn't get the slightest bit of information about you leaving the palace at midnight."

"Bro, stop calling him Your Majesty. He's just a puppet out of nowhere. You're the one who should-" Weiheng stopped his words when he saw Wenhua's face turned cold again.

"Y-Your Majesty Li Xi and I have gone to the Feng empire. You won't believe what I'm about to say, but Your Majesty Li Xi broke through the Feng imperial security with ease. He even knows every corner of the palace and secret passages to enter the palace archives" explained Weiheng with a prefix that was so reluctant to call Li Xi as Your Majesty.

Wenhua was silent listening to his young brother story carefully. His brain was working as he heard these quite strange things. After all, he knew Li Xi well. Only he knew that Li Xi had a timid side, so how could Li Xi dare to go unaccompanied by many bodyguards to a place as dangerous as the Feng Empire that even Wenhua herself wasn't sure could easily break through the Feng imperial security.

Wenhua thought deeply, "Even he dared to be left alone there and tell Hua-er to go get something, he did that on purpose and as if he didn't want anyone by his side..."

"Does Li Xi have any secrets his hiding?" Wenhua thought.

"Bro, what are you thinking?" Weiheng asked curiously.

"I was thinking, what punishment should I give you..."

"Pu-punishment?. Brother, I already apologized!, why do you want to punish me?" Weiheng protested, "After all, I just let go..." Weiheng whispered in a low voice. Even though he didn't want to be punished, he realized he was wrong too, so Weiheng only tried his best to defend himself.

"Still dare to protest?. well, then I have determined your punishment"

"Bro!"

"Contemplate your mistakes in the dive room for three days, don't see Your Majesty. I will speak to You Majesty if you are sick" Wenhua said with a little nosy, then he immediately left Weiheng.

"Eh?, brother!" Weiheng was speechless, so he just pouted, "What kind of punishment has to make me lie in bed all day doing nothing?" Weiheng grumpbled. He knew that what his brother did was not punishment but he wanted his Hua-er to rest. Even though he always said coldly, Weiheng knew the nature of his brother who loved him so much. Wenhua had always taken risks for the only surviving family after the night of the winter palace family massacre five years ago.

Until now, Wenhua and Weiheng are still looking for the mastermind behind the killing of all the Li Yin royal family who allegedly wanted to end the lineage of the sky clan and wanted to establish another kingdom by destroying the Li Yin kingdom, but who would have thought that Li Xi would take other actions and want to keep the Li palace Yin stood up. He didn't even want to change the name of Li Yin's palace with the ridiculous reason that the palace's first name was the same as his own. Of course Wenhua only guessed that there was something else behind it all. Li Xi just wanted to keep the people believing in him.

"A naive and mysterious act" Wenhua thought as she was sure Li Xi had many secrets she kept to herself that she didn't tell anyone. Even Wenhua and Weiheng's uncle brought Li Xi who was said to be the son of the previous Li emperor's second concubine, who was none other than Wenhua and Weiheng's father.

Actually, only Wenhua knew that Li Xi could be called his younger brother who was only used by their uncle who wanted the throne, but who would have thought, unconsciously his uncle was also a puppet being controlled by someone whose identity was unknown. The only clue Wenhua could look for was from a technique he had seen during the massacre back then. An ancient technique that was kept very deep by their father because it was a forbidden technique. Unfortunately Wenhua didn't know what kind of technique it was because when he was about to investigate it, the ancient scrolls on the technique were already charred pieces of paper so he could only trace the technique slowly while studying it.

***

Chunyin had been thinking for almost two hours. In fact he couldn't make his brain stop working. As soon as he entered his room he was immediately attacked by many thoughts that he could no longer bear to think about. Chunyin even kept thinking as she tried to close her eyes. And finally he fell asleep by having to bring his thoughts to the subconscious to come with him.

The scenery similar to what was in Li Yin's palace was so beautiful to look at, even more beautiful with the abundance of glittering jade ornaments and rare trees and plants also adorning it.

Inside the palace there is a king and queen, two crown princes and one crown princess. Everything seems to be living in peace until the day a crown prince is abandoned by his own family. The sky turned dark and lightning struck the emperor's seat so that the coronation of the crown prince to become emperor was canceled because it was considered not to get the blessing of the sky.

The next scene changed so fast. It was a scene that was almost similar to Chunyin's previous dream. A flower bed, but there were two small children who were there playing with flowers and rabbits. For a while the two little children also seemed to be playing very well with the little girl who played the role of a rabbit, while the little boy took on the role of a wolf, and they also played chase, until the wind blew all the flowers. The scene then rolls back to another scene.

This time, Chunyin saw that there were so many scrolls lying in front of her. Chunyin was even opening and reading one of the scrolls which was slightly blurry in writing and drawing.

"What other technique is this, Master?" Chunyin asked in the dream, although the one who asked was in fact a young man around fifteen years old.

"That is a technique ..." before hearing to the end, Chunyin unfortunately had to wake up. His head was dizzy because he slept with his thoughts. Even so the dreams that he had were very sure if they were all things that he could not directly remember.

"Technique?" muttered Chunyin who was so curious about his last dream. He felt like he remembered something but couldn't remember it either.

Chunyin later spent several hours in the archives reading through the many scrolls that might give clues about her memories which he still couldn't easily open up until now, plus Jiang Yi's presence made clear all the oddities.

"What technique is that exactly?" muttered Chunyin who had almost opened all the archives on the techniques of the sky clan, "could it be in the archives of the Da Huo manor in the Feng empire?" he muttered again, but he hesitated. Chunyin felt even more certain that the technique belonged to the Li empire because she had seen a celestial clan's mark of two moons side by side; one full moon and next to it is a black crescent.

Finding nothing, Chunyin went to Emperor Li's study to look at some scrolls he might have missed.

Apparently before Chunyin came, Wenhua was already there to give her report as usual. Wenhua saluted Chunyin as soon as Chunyin entered, "Your Majesty"

"Here's the report for tonight" Wenhua said as he handed her a piece of paper.

"Your Majesty, excuse me for interrupting for a moment"

"Just say it"

"Before there is a misunderstanding, I would like to request time for Weiheng my young brother to rest for three days because his health is deteriorating. It seems that he was careless and injured after entering the pool while on duty" explained Wenhua who was immediately agreed by Chunyin who was actually quite grateful if no one else was around. who talked a lot near his ear, but because of that Chunyin recalled her Xiang-er who also had a wound after someone put her in a water cell.

Chunyin crumpled a bit of paper. He had to find a way to retrieve his Xiang-er.